We have much pleasure in publishing the appeal of our
comrade, a Ukrainian Marxist, to the Ukrainian, class-conscious
workers. Unity irrespective of nation. This call is particularly urgent in
Russia at the present time. The petty-bourgeois intellectuals of
Dzvin, the workers’ evil counsellors, are trying as hard as they
can to drive a wedge between the Ukrainian and the Great-Russian
Social-Democratic workers. Dzvin is serving the cause of the
nationalist petty bourgeoisie.

We shall, however, serve the cause of the international workers: we
shall rally, unite and merge the workers of all nations for united and
joint activities.

Long live the close fraternal alliance of the workers of the Ukrainian,
Great-Russian and all other nations of Russia!

Notes

[1]
“Appeal to the Ukrainian Workers”, in the Ukrainian language
signed by Ocksen Lola, and published in the newspaper Trudovaya
Pravda No. 28 for June 29, 1914, called upon the workers to unite
irrespective of nation in order to fight capital and to arrange for the
publication under the auspices of Trudovaya Pravda of a
“Ukrainian Workers’ Leaflet”.

The “Appeal” was drafted by Lenin in Russian in the spring of 1914
and forwarded to 0. N. Lola through Inessa Armand. The “Appeal” was
intended for the Miners’ Leaflet—a supplement to the newspaper
Put Pravdy. Lenin considered it important for the “Appeal” to be
issued by Lola in Ukrainian in order, that a voice be raised precisely
among the Ukrainian Social-Democrats calling for unity against the division
of the workers by nation. The “Ukrainian Workers’ Leaflet” was
not published.